Google Testing Audio Overviews In The Wild (Not Just In Labs)

About a year ago, Google announced you can opt in, within Search Labs, to see Audio Overviews within the Google Search results. But now, I saw two different people say they saw it without opting into the experiment. So Google may be testing this in the wild.

Google says, "Audio Overviews, which uses our latest Gemini models to generate quick, conversational audio overviews for certain search queries."

Here is what it looks like:

You can opt into these over here, if you want.

Now, some are seeing this in the wild - here are two examples:

Wait - have you guys heard this???

Google just created a 2 person pod cast (one man and one female voice)@rustybrick @edwardeachday @seosmarty pic.twitter.com/T0sm7LpsZI

— David Quaid - AI SEO (@DavidGQuaid) April 20, 2026

Whoa, this is creepy. Google is testing a new AI-powered audio section in search results that sounds just like a podcast.

Can't imagine publishers will be too happy to stumble across this, even when their content is cited (along with many others).

More info in the comments. pic.twitter.com/Dfh1KJi3C0

— Brodie Clark (@brodieseo) April 23, 2026

Google Added "Listen to an AI powered conversation"
cc: @rustybrick pic.twitter.com/MtjFOnVQCG

— Punit (@Punit6008) April 24, 2026

Maybe Google will be rolling these out more widely at Google I/O?

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